Gold and heartbreak: How Team USA is faring at the Winter Olympics
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | All right, let's turn now to the Winter Olympics, and there are some spoilers ahead. |
| 0:05.5 | In the women's bobsled, Elena Myers-Taylor won the gold, and her American teammate, Kay Lee Humphreys, took bronze. |
| 0:12.8 | Myers-Taylor has now won six medals in her career, tying with Bonnie Blair as the most decorated U.S. female athlete in Winter Olympics history. |
| 0:21.6 | Eileen Gou, American-born but competing for China, won silver in what's known as the Free Ski |
| 0:27.6 | Big Air event. She was edged out for the gold by Canada's Megan Oldham. As for the medal |
| 0:33.6 | leaderboard, the U.S. is now in third place with 19 medals total. Norway leads with 28, and Italy is |
| 0:39.8 | second with 23. Liz Landers has a look now at how Team USA is doing overall, including the |
| 0:46.5 | disappointment for Ilya Malanin and a gold medal rematch in women's hockey between the U.S. |
| 0:51.7 | and Canada. Indeed, I'll note, one of the most shocking moments was when American figure skating |
| 0:57.4 | sensation, Elia Malanin, who's been nicknamed the quad god and was favored to win gold, |
| 1:03.3 | stumbled twice during the free skate, leaving him with eighth place. |
| 1:07.6 | He posted on social media about the, quote, invisible battles that he has been dealing |
| 1:12.7 | with, which concerned some of his fans. I'm joined now by Christine Brennan, who's been covering the |
| 1:18.8 | Winter Olympics for USA Today. Christine, thanks so much for joining us. Oh, my pleasure, Liz. Thank you. |
| 1:24.8 | Let's start with Elia Malinan. He was favored to win gold in the men's |
| 1:29.1 | free skate. He ended up in eighth place, and Monday morning he shared on Instagram saying, |
| 1:34.5 | quote, vile online hatred attacks the mind and fear lures it into the darkness. What do you think |
| 1:42.0 | happened in that free skate? Was it a technical issue or was it |
| 1:45.3 | mental? He said right afterwards, Liz, that it was mental as he was doing interview after |
| 1:51.4 | interview calmly, patiently, kindly answering every question over and over again. Remarkable. Remarkable |
| 1:57.6 | display for a 21-year-old who had just had the worst performance of his |
| 2:01.9 | young career. But he talked about the mental aspect. And I've covered him through really the |
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